Cycle definition

SP-100 Generic Flight System Duty Cycle Definitions, PIR-1009 Rev. B, SP-100 Program Information Release, dated March 12, 1992... 

The word lest is quite broad in its definition, and many of the inspection steps in the course of the compressor manufacturing cycle can appropriately be called tests. An example would be the material tests. The API mechanical equipment standards, however, attempt to narrow the test definition. This chapter will discuss testing within these narrowed definitions. The first test defined in most API mechanical equipment standards is the hydrostatic test, and it will, therefore, be the first test covered in the chapter. 

Life cycle assessment is defined by ISO 14040 as compilation and evalu ation of inputs, outputs and the potential environmental impacts of a product system throughout its life cycle. The ISO standards regulate the procedural aspects of LCA. They do not, however, provide all the information required for carrying out an LCA study. The main phases of LCA are goal and scope definition, inventory, impact assessment, and interpretation. The various applications of LCA are not regulated by the standard (Fig. 15.1). 

ISO, F.nvironmental Management—Life Cycle Assessment—Goal and Scope Definition and Inventory Analysis (ISO 14041). 

An important field of study for power plants is that of the combinedplant [ 1 ]. A broad definition of the combined power plant (Fig. 1.5) is one in which a higher (upper or topping) thermodynamic cycle produces power, but part or all of its heat rejection is used in supplying heat to a lower or bottoming cycle. The upper plant is frequently an open circuit gas turbine while the lower plant is a closed circuit steam turbine together they form a combined cycle gas turbine (CCGT) plant. 

B is the heat transfer from Z to the closed cycle within control surface Y, which occurs during the time interval that A/f, the mass of fuel, is supplied and [CV]q is its calorific value per unit mass of fuel for the ambient temperature (Tq) at which the reactants enter. F = A/f[CV]o is equal to the heat (0o) that would be transferred from Z if the products were to leave the control surface at the entry temperature of the reactants, taken as the temperature of the environment, Tq. Fig. 1.7 illustrates the definition of calorific value. 

The analysis of accidents and disasters in real systems makes it clear that it is not sufficient to consider error and its effects purely from the perspective of individual human failures. Major accidents are almost always the result of multiple errors or combinations of single errors with preexisting vulnerable conditions (Wagenaar et al., 1990). Another perspective from which to define errors is in terms of when in the system life cycle they occur. In the following discussion of the definitions of human error, the initial focus will be from the engineering and the accident analysis perspective. More detailed consideration of the definitions of error will be deferred to later sections in this chapter where the various error models will be described in detail (see Sections 5 and 6). 

We note that (1.12) relates to the cycle index (1.16) like (1.15) (taking (1.12) and (1.14) into account) to (1.17). The following definitions allow us to state the rules on the construction of the generating functions in a unified way. To introduce the functions /(x), f(x,y) into the cycle index means putting... 

Referring to the definition (1.5) of the cycle index we find further two permutation groups are combinatorially equivalent if and only if there exists a unique correspondence between the permutations of the two groups such that corresponding permutations have the same type of cycle decomposition. 

The direct product G H x k x. .. of arbitrarily many permutation groups is defined similarly. With this definition of a direct product the degrees are added and the cycle indices multiplied. 

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